How Do You Make Your Bed?

I just yank up the sheet on both sides, then fling the quilt up. Done.  

I KNEW there was a good reason for not making my bed hahaha!! Thanks for giving me the justification!

Actually, I do make my bed most of the time. Our bedroom is the first room you see as you walk in the front door. My dog sleeps on the bed most of the day, and I have to leave my bedroom door open so he can come and go. I prefer to have the bed made in case anyone comes into the house. 

Making my bed is a super easy one movement process. We only have a doona (duvet) - no blankets, no sheets - so it's just a matter of pulling the doona straight. I don't have decorative cushions, so it's just the pillows that are already in place. 

I just straighten it up. We don't share blankets and DH doesn't use a top sheet so it would be futile and annoying to put energy into this. Although...I would love the look and I think it changes the whole feel/energy of the room.

Wait, you are supposed to make the bed?

I used to rarely make the bed, noe I do it everyday. It started when we were living in our travel trailer. Making the bed made it feel homey and less cluttered.

Now in our new house I have just continued the habit. Except for today. I finished my coffee went to get dressed only to find dh had made the bed! Pillows in shams and throw pillows expertly placed. 🥰

So I make it with top sheet folded down at the top over the comforter, our sleeping pillows fluffed but laying flat, with pillows in shams on top and 3 throw pillows.

Get up, flip back the sheet and duvet to air the bed. Have breakfast, shower etc and come back to make the bed. Pull the sheet and duvet up together. Fold back a bit so it's just on the other side of the pillow.

I have a top sheet and a duvet in a cover. I smooth the top sheet, straighten the duvet cover, replace the pillows, done! I sort of try to air it out, but the second I leave the fitted sheet unprotected is when Orla will walk all over it after having dug a hole in the yard.

I hate tight and tucked-in sheets and blankets, because it makes me feel trapped in the bed (PSTD issues).
I half ass make the bed....sheet and throw style blanket(which is in lieu of a comforter or bed spread) loosely pulled up towards the pillows. Weighted blanket, thrown over the end of the bed rail. 

On a daily basis, it has the slightly messy and disheveled look. I am very okay with that.
If someone is coming over, then I make the effort to smooth it out a little.

We're supposed to make our bed? Nope. Not here.

Fully made every day, I take everything off, straighten the bottom sheet, duvet back on pulled up to the top of the mattress, pillows fluffed and placed on top of the duvet. I add some cushions and Sushi's biscuit baking blanket and it's done. 
I really dislike an unmade bed.

I basically just make sure the sheets/blankets are not falling off the bed. End of story.

The very first thing I do to any bed when I go to sleep is to rip every last bit out from under the mattress, so even when I make my bed, I do NOT tuck anything under the mattress. I am not a comforter/duvet kind of girl, so my top layer isn't shorter than my sheets/blankets, so I don't have to worry too much about them hanging lower on the sides of the bed than the top layer.


I worked in a store that catered to people making wedding registries in my early 20s, and I made so many over-the-top beds with a bajillion components for those happy couples to scan away, adding hundred of extra dollars to their beds, and then suggesting an extra piece of furniture or very large basket in their room to hold all of those extras when they went to sleep each night.  That really cemented in me the idea of a very simple bed.  And with our home's arrangement, a guest would need to go seek out our bed to even see it.  It's not visible from any part of the upstairs hallway.  

I don't

I haven't made a bed in years (except for when your house was for sale).  

Not making a bed is a holdover from a very controlling mom who insisted the bed was perfect every morning. 

No top sheet. I just shake the duvet, then pull it up to the top of the bed, place the pillows on top. That's it. 2 minutes max.

Pull up and flip the top down, nothing fancy!
No extra pillow, we each already have 3 each we use.
Definitely not extra blankets!